a prehistoric shelter… Crazy cliff faces that I wrote about in ‘how-to-draw-rocks’ & elsewhere… click on the rock category to see them all. The above watercolour portrays a prehistoric shelter. These ancient places for me feel charged with … our beginnings as a species. What was once there & what might be there…
Category: Rocks and Cliffs
Paintings of cliffs, art with rocks & stones. Watercolours of Vézère, Célé, Lot, Dordogne…falaise, rocher… vertical walls of stone
More Old Rocks in Watercolour & Ink -1999
‘Crack in the Rocks’ 1999 Watercolour. 25 x 32cm © The Artist. Here we go digging out ‘the old,old past’ to fill up the blog… Not much of a fan of that…silly old blog, who cares…. Opening old portfolios can take up time & attention that may well be better spent on new work.…
peinture d’une borie en Quercy Blanc
‘Landorre, Quercy Blanc’ Oil on canvas 50 x 61cm (19,7 x 24inches). © The Artist. 800 € borie = small stone sheperd”s hut Quercy = the old name for the province that lies in & around the lot dept. in sw France Blanc = white, the area has a lot of very white limestone A…
Le Grand Roc, Les Eyzies, Dordogne
‘Le Grand Roc, Les Eyzies’ Oil on Canvas 86,5 x 76 cm ; 34 x 30 inches Tous Droits Reservés© The Artist. email me for details about how to buy What I enjoy about this place is it is a veritiable meeting of two different ‘styles’ of landscape (three actually if you count the busy…
Realism vs.’visions’ in Palaeolithic Cave Art
‘ The Valley Spirit’ 1997 Oil 56 x 76 cm – 22 x 30 inches © The Artist. Email me for details about buying this painting The Mind in the Cave by David Lewis-Williams “ How, the, did people come to make representational images of animals and so forth out of projected mental imagery? I…
Font de Gaume, Dordogne
‘Font de Gaume’ 2004 Ink & Watercolour. double spread A5 sketchbook © The Artist. Ne jamais dire “Fontaine, je ne boirai pas de ton eau” – Périgordien Populaire Font de Gaume is probably the most famous prehistoric painted ‘grotte’ (cave) in Les Eyzies (go abit further up the Vezérè & you arrive at Lascaux).It’s geography…
‘La Fontaine Guilliérè’
Carrying on with my review of rocks, cliffs & prehistory. Sorry it’s retrospective, but part of how I use this blog is to unfuddle my thinking. Here’s some paintings that I’ve never digitally recorded. Only got a few pre-digital camera badly exposed silver halide photos as records. ‘La Fontaine Guilliérè’ 2000 oil on canvas 86…
Célé Valley Dreaming
‘Célé Valley Dreaming’ 2008 Ink & Watercolour. 23 x 33cm hand made linen rag paper © The Artist. 200 euros
Pen & Ink-Leonardo da Vinci-Stone Lithography – Mythological Images from Prehistory
Second Posting of Two : Marcilhac sur Célé – Pen & Ink – How to Draw Rocks, Cliffs … & Comets??? – Leonardo da Vinci – Stone Lithography – Mythological Images PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART POSTING – How to draw rock & cliffs ‘La Vallée de Célé depuis La Croix de Renard’ 1996 Ink…
Marcilhac sur Célé – how to draw rocks & cliffs -stone lithography
First Posting of Two Posts part two, second post – Leonardo dea Vinci’s drawings of rocks ‘Postcard from Marcilhac sur Célé’ 1996 15 x 10 cm Stone Lithography © The Artist. Edition sold out. My Personal Experience of an Artist’ s Residency In 1996, I won an artist-in-residency to make limited editions of stone lithographs…
